This is an analysis of A Ballad Of Abbreviations by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
The American's a hustler, for he says so,
And surely the American must know.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbbb XXcbcbcb cdXdbbbb eeeeeded
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0010001001111 1100010011 101010101011 0100011101 101010101010 10101010101 101111101010 1100010011 101010101100 11011111110 101110111010 10110010001 111010101010 01000001011 111111101010 0101010101 1101010110 1111011101 101000101010 10101010101 111110101011 10100010111 101011101010 0111010101 111000101010 10101010101 111000100010 11111010111 111011101010 1101110001 011111101010 11111010001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
he
Anaphora
he, when
